Duane Hicks With November being Woman Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month, Jacquee Loerzel of Riverside Community Counselling is inviting Fort Frances businesses to participate in a contest by decorating their windows and stores in purple to support the campaign. Loerzel will be visiting the businesses starting tomorrow to hand out […]
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Heather Latter Ten-month-old cousins Eva Mosbeck, left, and Jase Grimard dressed up as “Garth” and “Wayne” from the movie, “Wayne’s World,” during Baby Time at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre this morning as more than a dozen tots celebrated Hallowe’en.
Joey Payeur Forgive the Dryden Eagles’ junior girls’ basketball team if they had a certain “Queen” and David Bowie duet running through their heads. Under pressure was the theme of the day for the host Eagles (3-5), who were helpless to fend off a relentless full-court attack as the visiting […]
Joey Payeur Trying to stop the Fort Frances Lakers these days with all hands on deck is tough enough. Doing it with a short bench is next to impossible. Such was the fate of the Dryden Ice Dogs last night, who only were able to ice 14 skaters due to […]
Another frosty morning on Monday but I think this is the only way I’ll be able to tackle some straw baling–and plowing work that I still need to do! It will require a fair bit of clothing but I will try to finish these jobs (if you see me off […]
Over the past seven or eight years since I finished university, my fall season has been totally consumed with deer hunting. In 2005 and 2006, our deer population really peaked in Northwestern Ontario. At that time, my interest in deer hunting was very high. I was spending much of my […]
If the prime minister was hoping that his prorogation and subsequent 17-week summer break would put the Senate scandal on the backburner when Parliament returned, he was spectacularly wrong. It is increasingly obvious that Mr. Harper really has no one left to blame but himself for all of this. He […]
This is the time of year to review your cow inventory and identify candidates for culling. Here are some culling tips: Your list of candidates should start with open cows and heifers. Pregnancy checking and culling open cows has shown to return about $30 per cow exposed. There is no […]
For the first 16 years of my life, I lived happily in a 100-year-old, eight-bedroom house on Route 12 in northern New York. A house that lived its first century as a tavern, when taverns were inns that served 19th-century travellers. As a child, I never once questioned why we […]
Shock and awe—that’s the only way I can describe it. The snow that greeted me the other morning gave me a niggling feeling we had waited too long to head south. But I had to make the best of it, so I dug out of the garage the musty old […]
On Sept. 18, the premier announced the creation of a Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel. According to the Ontario government’s news release, the purpose of the panel is to recommend “ways to fund public transit across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)” by meeting “with stakeholders and residents in […]
What do we know about ourselves? Even before we are born, medical records are being created about our well-being. Our earliest pictures are ultrasounds, which excited moms and dads post on Facebook. From scrapes and fractures to colds, sniffles, and tonsils, everything goes into our files. As adults, pregnancies, weight, […]
